T^fdM STOb PIGEONS e$g peeped out from under the wardrobe. good joke. "Now, have got even Fr. Aufdeijheide, A a ^€SB is a 5 $ "Squea-ea-eak! and I don't like with that child," said he: "she wont It was Christmas day, anybody Bertha either!" she said. make me jump—no not for another QjpJP** Oity Horse Trading, Sharks Oanaot Somehow just then the drowsy smile o'errame year at least!" "Tick-tock, tick-tock!" said the old could tell it sleigh bells rang out W Do Without Them. The restless dimple midway of her chin clock, "and why don't you like Bertha, Manufacturer of The little blue mouse laughed, too. more crisp and clear than usual the And sleep's moist finger quenched the hazel Mistress Blue Mouse?" Of course, she got all the candy, and flame sun was mightier, the air was sharper, Their Whole Duty Consists in Inveigling Her curling lashes lealously hedge in. she ate so much of it that for the "She frightens me," answered the Fire, Well Building a Steeple men stepped more briskly along the a 8 he Shearer—Intense Hatred in How sweet hei slumber is, my thoughts divine, little blue mouse, "and she pets the next week her doctor did nothing but "Which They Are Held byDespoiled Victims streets, the chimes sounded sweeter* horrid old cat. No, I could never give her paregoric, and he told her Brick I'm sure a yellow love lock strays athwart —They are Slick the sleigh bells tinkled more merrily The coverlet, as it it sought to shine like a child that keeps such bad company. that if, in the meantime, she tasted The duties of a stool pigeon are not (JloBe to the happy beating of her heart. and if that wasn't enough to convince any cheese it would be the death of Depend upon it, no child that Fine Pressed for very onerous. He can put in six good her, sure! the most skeptical he could look at keeps company with a cat ever came She dreams!—but not of me To well I know -days' work in a week without soiling •& ornamental fronts. I to any good end—squea-ea-ea-eak!" As for Bertha, she got the worst of Whose image sways her sordid little soul the heading of the mornings newspaper. his hands or taking the shine from his A stalwart gentleman, this Javored beau, Now, while the old clock and the it, of course, for there she was—all Not young, and rather stout upon the patent leather shoes, and can often in jumping-jack and the little painted up like a jumping-jack' with Have the best o! shipping facilities and "Ha!" cried Mr. Scriggles, as he whole blue mouse talked together, a big purple left eye. She couldn't that time accumulate an account of will pay prompt attention to mail orders, His head hath white of many winter's frost. limped out of bed "beautiful day! Bertha lay fast asleep in her speak or do anything else unless His beard is hoar, his brow is marked of money far surpassing the wages of beautiful, and indeed Christmas Mrs. time, little crib, and the old clock and somebody pulled the string, and she harder working men. The stool NEW ULM, MINNESOTA. Scrigarles isn't awake yet either. I'll But in good stead of graces he has lost, the jumping-jack and the little blue had to stay that way a whole year, pigeon is the particular detestation of The beauty of his treasure is sublime get ahead of her this time. Merry mouse were still talking and Bertha until Santa' Claus came around himself the fleeced dupe, and just as the victim Christ !H. EudolpM In fact I had some worthy gifts of him was still fast asleep when there came and fixed things. When Santa "Scriggles, has the servant got hoped to "down" some one and secure Myself, in dajs not passed beyond my the sound ot sleigh-bells and then Claus did come back he took the evil mind, that fire started yet? a return of something for nothing, just the noise of some slipping down the jumping-jack away with him and 'TIB true his kindness now looks somewhat "I don't know, dear I was just in that ratio he hates the treacherous dim, chimney. changed him into a nut-cracker. So jMANUFAOTrBKR OF & DSAXXB QT going down to see about it. Merry tknave who led him to ruin. A curious As bygone favors often do, I find— now the eviljumping jack has to work Boots and-Shoes! But instead of Santa Claus there fet on this Christmas eve thev give me pause, Christ phase of all swindling transactions is harder than ever before, and nobody And lend me grace his triumph to smvive came out of the chimney and stood "Scriggles, I would like to have $5 that the lamb who is shorn hates the is a bit sorry, I certain. But the Eeign over her in peace, friend Santa Claus, on the hearth a very fat and very to give the church. Have you got She'll flout your claims next year when she shearer far less than the smooth-spoken old clock sings "tick-toek, tick-tock," sleepy-looking boy" He wore fur 9 Minn, 3d N. strs., '.New Ulm, Minn. any money left from last night is five' lust the same as before, and once when wight who led him into error. clothes and a fur cap, and the hrst "Certainly, I kept $25 exclusively —Eva Wilder McGlasson. I sat listening to this strange music, thing he did was to yawn. for Christmas. I'll leave the five on The uses of the stool pigeon are A large assortment of men's and which will go on long after you and "You're not Santa Claus, are you?" the dressmg-case for you boys' boots and shoes, and ladies' ant) various About horse markets his attendance THE EVIL JUMPING-JACK. I are done with 'Christmas times' the asked the jumping-jack. He skipped gaily down stairs just children's shoes constantly kept «r is as constant as that of an old clock paused its solems singing "Of course he isn't'" said the old hand. Custom work and repaiilag time to meet the upstairs girl. Auctioneer. Parties wishing to buy a to tell me the story I have just told clock. "I know Santa Claus for I've promptly attended to* "Good mornin', Misthpr Scriggles, horse wander through the stables in BY EUGENE FIELD. you, and the old clock knows many seen him twenty times!" andr Merrv Christmas Christmas search of one that will suit them from other pretty stories which I may at Christmas Eve the old clock stood in "No, I'm Santa Claus' boy," said gift." John Hauenstein, among the dozens that are brought some future time repeat.—Pittsburg the boy, and then he yawned again, the corner and sang "tick-tock, ticktock," "Certainly Bridget, here's a couple Bulletin. there for sale, and is shortly accosted theior he was very sleepy. BREWER of dollars for you." until everything else in by an affable individual with the direct "What on earth are you doing The cook was just emerging from room had gone to sleep—everything he Electric Piano -query. here at this time of night?" asked the kitchen when he arrived at the except the jumping-jack. the jumping-jack. I have been asked dozens of times "Do you want to buy a horse?" door. and "Why, lathe? was so bu3y," said "Tick-tock," said the old clock, "Christmas gif, massa Scriggles." The visitor admits he does, when the if the new invention that plays the MALTSTER the boy, "that he sent me down here "Certainly, Arabella, here's $2 for new acquaintance informs him that an and then it looked at the jumpingjack piano by an electric attachment will with this box of candy and this box you." •actual bargain in horseflesh is waiting and asked, "Why haven't you not decrease the number of students of of paints. One of them is for—let Breakfast was eaten and Scriggles some man with aiscernment at a little gone to sleep, too?" me see—he said to give the candy to piano playing when it comesto be gen- Our brewery is folly equipped and able to fir presented his wife with a bonnet which stable less than a block away. "You ill orders. she said was horrid, andshegavehim can't tell anything about these horses Mr. F. Grebe has charge of the bottling eataa a cane to add to his collection, which in a public stable," kindly volunteers lishment. numbered something over a dozen. Hew Ulm, Minn. the pigeon, "better buy at a piivate He then took the street-car a own foam." town, R. Pfefferle, The two walk a little further in orler "Mornin/ massa "Scri^les," paid to divert from them the suspicion his bootblack. "Christmusgif." of the attaches of the stables If the "Yes, Sam here's a dollar for you visitor be inclined to stimulate hia "Christmas gift, Mr Scriggles," Said Dealer in nerve with strong drink the stool the elevator boy. pigeon readily finds a convenient bar "Yes, of course, here's a dollar for s. •oceries, at which tonics are retailed, and then you.*' "Christmas gift. Mr. Scriggles," the den of the private horse seller is said the office boy in a cheerfnll tone CANNED, DRIED & GREEN invaded. which was good for $2. FRUITS, •Til just introduce you to a friend "Ah, good day, madam," said he 1 of mine," says the pigeon. "Mr. to the lady to whom he found seated Blank will you treat better than if you Flour eundL Feed- in his chair. "Merry Christmas to came in as a mere stranger. What is you, I'm sure. name3" vour "I am glad to see that you have STOUE.WOODEN AND W "Bond," replies the innocent, reflecting the true Christmas spirit," she said. WAJBE. "It augurs favorably for my errand." with a chuckle that he is very HEW ITLM, MINSr/ "What can I do foryou, ma'am?" fortunate to fall in with a man so "I am working in the cause of -accommodating in a perfectly strange J3IS charity," sheiephed. am soliciting place. subscriptions for the natives of "Mr. Blank, this is my friend, Mr. Patagonia. I hope 1 may put you Bond," says the pigeon. He wants to down for $10." look at that jroan mare of [yours. Do Manufactory of and Dealer ia Mr Scriggles said certainly, and the right thing by him, Blank. I'll be CIGAES, handed her the money. •back in a mmute," and the pigeon, The janitor and two scrub ladies having led his victim to the lair of the also made successful calls. He had TOBACCOS, sharper, departs to find a new tender* to compromise with the latter on (foot fifty cents apiece. PIPES, The two men then go over the points At about 3 o'clock Mr. Scriggles of a horse that is really so defective he concluded to start for home. As he Cer. Minnesota and Centre reached the sidewalk he felt in his jcould not be sold in a public auction, streets. vest pockets, then in his trousers /but whose infirmities have been skilfulfly pockets A slight look of annoyance NEWtJLM, 'HINtf. hidden by a man who has sold nothing crossed his face*. Jno. Neuman, sound in years. A bargain is struck "Merry Christmas,'" said a cheery iand a $10-ammal, old to vote if enfranchised, voice. is transferred at a fancy price "Oh, how are you, Brown, yes, to Dealer in *to a man too shrewd, to trust an auctioneer. be sure. Do you happen to have a DnR/ aooDS In less than two days he is car ticket in yonr pocket?") Jback with his purchase, cursing every "No, I haven't." I Hats, Cups, Hotiana, man who had a hand in robbing him, "Any change?" "No not a red." Groceries', Provision*) but swearing particular vengeance on When Scriggles reached home it was the fellow who introduced him to Mr. Crockery and Glassware, about 6 30. He dragged himself Blank. That worthy, however, has Green* Dried and Canned wearily through the door and flung had his commission on the sale of the JPruits, etc, etc. himself on the lounge Toan mare and a dozen others, and is "Did you have a pleasant Christmas?" I win always take farm produce 1B exchange as difficult to find as a restitution of asked his wife. for goods, and pay the highest market pricefora** the purchase money. This kind of kinds of paper rags. "Christmas be blamed," was the stool pigeon runs very little risk of only reply as he flopped/ over on his In connection with my store I h/v%e a Arat-elae meeting his victims a second time, for side with his face to thei wall.—Merchant saloon famished with splendid billiard table eat he can lead them to any one of a score Traveler. my easterners will always find good liquors #j|f of stables, but he now and then meets cigars, and every forenoon a splendid laaeJu with a severe drubbing at the hands of A of Salt, •11 goods purchased or me will be delivered f| the men who conduct the great sale Everything in the country of the say part of the city free of cost. stables, and who naturally wish to Chai in Central Asia is ^described by Minnesota Street. y«jr TJlm. Mlnifc hold all prospective customers. Aside Gabriel Bouvalot as Covered with Meat MarMetJ pigeon1 from this the life at a horse salt. I is seen in the walls of the houses and on the banks of the rivers "barn is usually strewn with roses.— M. EFPLE, Prop'r. Chicago Herald. and the water one drinks is very salt. Traveling saltpeter makers go MonnBoiAST.NEW fcLMINlg 'W in summer from place to place whereever "You're Another." "I'm waiting for Santa Claus," answered the jumping-jack, and—TO, that erally known. I think not. The elec. they can find maf erial to work A small boy's class in natural history •"Hire uderslgned aoslrea to laf orn Vb» people el wasn't it' I am to paint Bertha—no, the jumping-jack. trie piano plays just as well as canupon. Their mode of operation is a I N Ulm and vicinity tkat he ».*» re-esUbJUW, Professor: "Animals that have I'm sure I don't remember what he possibly be done' with hands and finand ed his meat market aad is now prsspared to wall "Waitingfor Santa Claus!" laughed rough-and-ready one. Holes in the no feet and crawl along the ground are did tell me to do, but here is thegers, on Us eld customers and friends with only tat all the expression and all earth serve as vats and boilers, and best fresh and cured meats, sausages, lard and «R the old clock, "why, you don't suppose called reptiles. Who can give me an candy and here are the paints!" the accuracy are there. But nevertheless erythlng usually kept hi a first-class market Tti below these are placed ovens. Abundance Santa Claus is going to bring example of a reptile?" Young Brown: highest mu-ket You see that he had forgotten all }f*ee w*»be paid for FAT0A1 it is not the skilled pianist SUB, HUMES, of brushwood supplies material rOOL, ETC. "A worm." Professor: "Excellent you anything, do you?" about what he came for. Wasn't with intelligent fingers and sympathetic E for the fires. The workers collect that just like a boy? Now will some boy think of a second face who is producing the music, "I need it bad enough," said the from the surface of the earth heaps 'reptile3" and one listens to it with a distinct TTTOLI Young Jones: "Another Just then a wicked thought came jumping-jack "I fell into the washbasin ^f- of compost of salt and animal manure. feeling that something is lacking. to the jumping-jack. He winked his ^worm w^ three weeks ago, and by theone This is soaked for twenty-four One wants to see the person eye at the little blue mouse, as fci time I was pulled out and dried I hous in water, then filtered, and then Victoria's Throne. whOvis making the music. The invention, much as to say, "You help me out in AND boiled for twenty-four hours, cleansed ^The? JEnglish throne, used in thelost all the beautiful red stripes and this story and I'll make it all right I suppose will be used largely or-BREWERY in concerts, where several pianos are and placed in the sun, so that with you." Then the jumping-jack $ coronation ceremonies of the kings yellow buttons off my coat and this needed and good time must be kept, the water may evaporate. An said to the boy, "I know all about §8& and queens of Great Brit Britain, and left eye of mine faded from a lovely and it may do much good in teaching. this, and I tell you what to do The dinary workman ean make about #1 which is so splendid in its covering of purple into a dirty lavender. I have But nothing mechanical can box of candy is for me, and you are fifty pounds in a day, and this he JOS. 8CHMUCKEE rich silks, velvets and gold, is, in fact, been the sickest jumping-jack in town ever take the place of the trained piano to paint Bertha. You'll find her in pells at the rate of one penny a »k simply an old oak chair of antique musician.—Pianist in St. Louis NEW ULM, MINNESOTA the crib over there. Pu some red ever since." sound.—Popular Science Monthly. K^pattern. It has been used on all state Globe-Democrat. Pure beer aold in quantities to suit the stripes and yellow buttons on her, "Oh, pshaw!" said the old clock purchaser. Special attention paid to, the Pl^occasions for the last 600 years and S 0 1 and don't forget to give her a new bottling ot beer. "handsome is that handsome does perhaps even longer, many reputable S Priz Paid. purple left eye Difficulty Easily S Mr. F. J. Carlyle, one of the proprietors of kick tock!" writers claiming that they have discovered "That's right!" squeaked the little the Delmonico Hotel, has just received $15,000 Francis Nautet, the Belgian, who TH E HE W El'•/*&* "But I shall be all right in theblue traces of its existence prior to mouse. by express from Inew Orleans, being onetwentieth undertook to travel from Brussels to usemorning," said the jumping-jack, of the capital prize of $300,000 in the eleventh century. Ages of The old clock was so surprised that Paris in a conveyance drawn by a the drawing for October of The Louisiana have made the old oak framework as "for my little mistress Bertha put me it could only say "tick-tock, ticktoek," CITY PLANING MILL couple of handsome dogs, was passing State Lottery A few days before the drawing over and over again, and "•hard and as tough as iron. The back here by the fire to-night, and whispered took place he tried to dispose of his through Louvroll, a small country these "tick-toeks" were so sad that and sides of this chair throne were up the ehimney, 'Please, Santa tickets, 63,856 among tbem, but without town in the department du Nord, tears of sorrow filled the eyes of the success. Something very peculiar and interesting -iZ MAUIWACTUKBS *t formerly painted in various colors, all Claus, bring anew eye^and a new suit when the mayor, on the strength of attended the success of Carlyle. A needles in the work-basket on the ta- \&flt which are now hidden by heavy of clothes for jumping-jack, and DOORS, WINDOW SASHU^ the Grammont law against cruelty short time ago he and Mr Marshall, bookkeeper e- *_"£ f4? liJpangings of satin, silk and velvet. The for Schwabacher Bros entered into a please, Santa Claus, bring me a nice to animals, forbade him to proceed. The boy was foolish enough to believe compact that if one was ever so Incky as to ^VENETIAN BUNDS, &f* imagic powers attributed to the old big^box of candy Mr. Nautet thereupon had recourse draw the capital prize he would give the the wicked jumping-jack. So he irelic lies in the seat, which & made of to a capital expedient for "So you like B^rtha^do you?" asked other 10 per cent, of his drawing. As soon MOULDINGS AND FRAMES. handed over the box of candy, and a heavy, sough-looking sandstone,.. 26 overcoming the mayor's scruples. the clock. %jg \Zfi as be received his money, Mr. Carlyle hunted then—oh horrible!—he went to theHe cp Mr. Marshall and counted ont 1,500 to linches in.length, 17J inches in width "No, not very much," said ihe packed his dogs into the cart and rianinff, turning and all crib and painted red stripes and yellow the surprised gentleman. He had forgotten and 19J inches in thickness. Long before jumping-jack "she dropped me in the dragged the conveyance through the buttons all over poor little about the agreement but Mr. Carlyle had work with rib-saw promptlp wash-basin, you know, and then, too, town himself, When he had got it was wrapped in velvet and not The Louisiana State Lottery is perfectly Bertha, and, having done that, he she makes me jump jvhen 1 don't clear of the boundary of the township, reliable, and those with the most conscientious Stand neatly eacecuted. trimmed in gold, to be used by the painted one of her beautiful blue eyes want to. Last week she pulled me scruples can invest in it. It is the Belgian exchanged places Tudore and the Stuarts, thi9 old stone (the left one) an awful purple! Then merelv one form of speculation. The Walla so hard that the string broke." with the dogs, and completed his An work snaranteML Bates ream* of stones served as a seat during the he tied a string to her, and climbed Wallans are very much pleased with the "Sque-ea-ea-eak!" said another trip to Paris without any further anise up the chimney again. honorable way in which the company treated coronations of the early Scottish small voice, and the little blue mouse. *. ZEIXJU. hindrance.—French Exchange. their fellow cftiita.—Walla Walla (Wash.) The jumping-jack thought it was a 4nng3*-»-N. Y. Stari Statesman, No*f"83B? :i \m ^^k&^#&'*&£%.